Six persons, including the main accused, were on Wednesday arrested for allegedly lynching the director of a school after bodies of two students were recovered from a ditch in Bihar's Nalanda district.

A day after the director of a private residential school in Bihar's Nalanda district was lynched by villagers, hundreds of angry protestors on Monday blocked traffic and demanded action against those involved, police said.

Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Congress MP PL Punia on Wednesday condemned the Dimapur lynching but at the same time said such incidents could instill fear into those involved in crime against women and called upon the dalits and adivasis to get organised so that nobody dares to misbehave with their women.

A 50-year-old man, who had allegedly raped a woman last week, was lynched by villagers after he along with an accomplice made an abortive attempt to rape her daughter in Seraikela-Kharswan district of Jharkhand, the police said on Wednesday.

Two persons, including the AJSU party`s Deogarh dist president Mukesh Kumar Singh, were today lynched by a group of villagers in Deogarh district`s Rohini village after an altercation broke out between them, the police said here.